On 02/10/2015 00:48, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's quite likely that you will find that compilers put read-only > constants in the text section, knowing that executable means readable.
Not on x86 (because it has large immediates; RISC machines and s390 do put large constants in the text section). But at the very least jump tables reside in the .text seection. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
